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Overworked burnout business man standing headless with smoke instead of his head. Armed person in a hoodie is pointing a handgun at the target. Are they pictures of Hal Holbrook and James Whitmore in costume, or portraits of portaits of Mark Twain and Harry Truman? Things can get a bit fuzzy around the edges. 52,698 Faceless Stock Photos, Royalty-free Images & Pictures. (Whether what you know about the person is something genuine or merely a persona they're projecting for the picture is another question entirely. It's that feeling you get that you know something about the person that makes the difference. On the other hand, the Farm Security Administration project and Life and National Geographic magazines have generated an awful lot of genuine portraits, even if the individuals in the pictures can't be (and aren't meant to be) identified.

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Penney catalogs, fashion and beauty magazines, and so on, are full of likenesses that have nothing to do with portraiture. A portrait ought to extend beyond a mere likeness into the realm of essence. That doesn't make any old picture of a person whose face you can or cannot see a 'portrait'.

Much the same could be said about a picture of a shy child hiding behind her hands (or, in a former time, hiding in her mother's skirt), an artist at the easel, dad (or grandpa) being little more than a pair of hands supporting a newspaper at the table, or a student lost in a book. When arguably the best portraitist of his age believes that such a representation of his subject is the best way of conveying that person's essential identity to others, I tend to give that opinion some weight. head silhouettes - faceless avatar stock illustrations.

missing image of a person placeholder - faceless avatar stock illustrations. I'd like to think that Yousuf Karsh's 1954 picture of cellist Pablo Casals counts as a portrait. Browse 1,258 faceless avatar stock photos and images available or start a new search to explore more stock photos and images.

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